The gaming community and the general public are both very hard to judge. There are very few games where you can definitively say will or won’t sell well. For example with the hundreds of Wii or DS titles that don’t fare well by the critics, but the public still eats ‘em up. In yet another example of this, Sega reported its results for the fiscal year ending March 21, 2026 and surprisingly Aliens vs. Predator sold more copies than Bayonetta. Bayonetta’s reviews couldn’t have been better yet in the U.S, Europe and Japan together it sold 1.35 million units compared to the 1.69 million units of Aliens vs. Predator sold in just the U.S and Europe. And here I was thinking Bayonetta would easily sell on her looks and charm alone…

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Incidentally, some of the best moments in my personal FPS file sprang forth from Alien Trilogy, the classic shooter seen originally on the PlayStation, PC, and Sega Saturn. As the infamous marine Ripley Scott, I blasted my way through LV426 in order to establish contact with a colony infested with nefarious aliens. Knee-deep in a Weyland-Yutani corporation, a prison, and a plethora of other dubious locations, I ensured that the scourge was wiped off the face of the planet. I purged areas of the infected. I reloaded often. The first time a face hugger set up camp on my own delicious countenance, I must have jumped a foot in the air.Dark corridors and even darker corners were so inviting, but what waitedbeyond the ominous last bits of light in a cleared area?

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